Health status in a transitional society: urban-rural disparities in China

Based on data from the Chinese General Social Survey from 2005 to 2013, this study not only explored the net age, period, and cohort effects of self-rated health, but compared these effects between rural and urban China from a dynamic perspective through hierarchical age-period-cohort-cross-classified random effects model.

How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy?

This article advances efforts to improve the monitoring of global birth registration by assembling publicly available birth registration records from 145 countries into a global birth registration database, and assessing the quality of birth registration data from around the world.

Aims and scope

Population Health Metrics addresses issues relating to concepts, methods, ethics applications, and results in the measurement of the health of populations. This includes areas of health state measurement and valuation, summary measures of levels of population health, and inequality in population health, descriptive epidemiology at the population level, burden of disease and injury analysis, disease, and risk factor modeling for populations and comparative assessment of risks to health at population level. The journal provides a platform for population health researchers in all these areas to share their findings with the global research community.

Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Alan D Lopez, University of Melbourne, AustraliaChristopher JL Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, USA

Managing Editors

Pauline Kim, IHME, University of Washington, USAKate Muller, IHME, University of Washington, USA

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Prof Alan D Lopez, Editor-in-Chief

Prof Lopez is a Melbourne Laureate Professor and the Rowden-White Chair of Global Health & Burden of Disease Measurement at The University of Melbourne. He is Director of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Group in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. He held prior appointments as Professor of Global Health, and Head of the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland from 2003-2012. He worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva for 22 years, including Chief Epidemiologist in the Tobacco Control Program and Director of the Global Burden of Disease Unit. He is the Technical Director for the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) component of the Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative, as well as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in the USA.

Prof Christopher JL Murray, Editor-in-Chief

Prof Murray, MD, DPhil, is a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington and Institute Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) whose career has focused on improving health for everyone worldwide by improving health evidence. A physician and health economist, his work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen health measurement, analyze the performance of public health and medical care systems, and assess the cost effectiveness of health technologies. IHME provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them.